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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c july 18 1878 no 39 hit hex dei-son's address t the people of the soth senatorial district â– â– .. or of rotean and daeie ., -, .. ietter of mr hobson which appears ; . ' watchman of the 3d inst supple ; "Â»!___â€ž is by tl open letter of mr th c foard to the farmers and median j ,* rowan and davie leaves mc no al ; 5__tive but to pick up the gauntlet which ; j "' â€ž tlewen have se defiantly thrown ' mr hobson as ( hairman of the e delegation authorizes the editor of watchman to announce j c hoard as -'"" , ,.,,-" davie county for the sen *Â»â– Â£ cm mr holj.-lleg.s_.-the ri of l.'davie deletion â€¢â€¢ whether â€¢'' _,â€žâ– it so how many nl the davie i:uc,'"au.le.ri/e,rmr.hobs,,,,t,,,,,akc .\?_ nnounceni-nt as chairman ol that : s has thought proper t explain did â– ,.:.. of them do so : when and where ipe . ob-on's delegation meet and 1 the people of davie county have notice rina.iv v.av-v.iitl.orize mich meeting : ' >[,- hob-ion attended the senatorial con n which met at south river on sat ,â€ž.*â€¢,â€¢, theifttil dav of june participated in ,',,.. deliberations of that liody and acted as rh-innanÂ«Â»ftÂ»iei)aviedel-gation thepro lines of that convention as puolisne m ,,â€ž. watchman ofthe 3d inst do not show l,,t lie withdrew from the con vention or ,,;,, n,,(..ted against its action forthe formation of the voters ol rowan and da vit i herewith subjoin a imrf summary ol the proceedings of thai body frank brown of rowan was elected pre lllllt s j tatum of davie secretary the following named delegates were present : from rowan jno w mauney frank ]-,,,â€žâ€ž. w ii overman c ii mekenzie knd wm r fraley km da dr.j.w.faisondr.j.w wiseman t f eaton b i smith w i . ilt*l_sÂ»n w t picklcr w f smith frank , r li bailey j l adams and j i woodruff . . . . 0n m ulion ., jomt committee o three from ,..â€žâ– ;,,,â– â– . ,--, ns appointed to decide which , ... i v hnd the right to nam the senator nc felegation from each county separated lu,l appointed its own members ofthis com mittee ,â€ž ., ... ,, itowan v'e ted jno n . mauney \Â» in r | fraley and c h mekenzie davie select j l w ii holurn br j w iscman and 1 |. woodruff thccommitt c retired and | after deliberating returned and mr mauney l the m ii r ty reported thai rowan was entitled to name the senator - four members of the committee voting in the majority mr hobson tor the minority protested againsl the report of the majority two member ofthe committee voting in the mi nority the majority report was lost by a vote of 7 against 8 both majority and mi i _>;â– ;*, reports were then laid on the table alter much discus-ion as to the mode ol voting mr mauncj moved that each coun â– *, ik entitled to vote according to its dun ; erratic strength at the election iu november stt this method giving rowan 22 votes and tr ie 11 motion adopted by a vote of s to ii t davie men and i kowan men vo ting in the affirmative and six davie men in the negative messrs john c foard and john s llcii i.tnoii were then put in nomination and the convention proceeded lo ballot for sen ator itowan cast 20 votes for mr mender min and j vote for mr foard : conceding to lhe latter the vote of franklin township mr v ii hobson declined to report the vote of davie county bul mr b bailey on in-half of the minority ot the davie delega tion reported 1 fi votes from davie for sir henderson which the chairman refused to allow to be counted upon the ground that it would be a breach of parliamentary eti quctte to recognize any vote not banded in by the chairman ofa delegation the votes of two town-hips for mr foard were also tendered to the president wliich ho declin ed to allow to be counted the president then announced that mr henderson having received a majority of the votes cast had received the nomination ofthe convention ynu will observe that the action ot the convention was deliberate and regular and tlmt i received a char majority ofthe dem ocratic votes of the two counties to wit : ten-elevenths ol the vote of rowan and about two fifths of the vote of davie rep resenting ten townships in rowan and two in davie tieelee iu all out of seventeen in the two counties it i insisted however without proof that several of the townships of rowan county which were represented as having declared for me and whose vote 1 received nt the senatorial convention are not really for ine but for mr foard which are ihev '. is it scotch irish that township voted for mc almost unanimously at the priman meet ing and was solid for me in the rowan county convrn ion i it unity that gave mc a unanimous vote at the township meet ing and also in the county convention 1 it mt 1'lla : that acted in the same way as did also locke i defy the friends of mr foard to name a single township in rowan county t he vote of whi h was count ed for me in the senatorial coin cut ion m here he received any voles \\ hatever cither at the primary meetings or in the rowan county convention and in franklin town ship which the friends of mr foard claim to be so strong for aim no ballot was taken at the primary meeting mr foard says that the county of davie met in convention aud voting by town hi'i recommended his name that same c invention recommended my name and also the name of mr john 11 chimin tbe of ficial report of the davie county conven tion doo not show that mr foard receive 1 the vole of a majority of the townships rep resented in that convention the secretary of that convention in an official letter which i presume is now in the hands of the late secretary of the senatorial convention stat ed positively thai at the davie county con vention john c foard received thn vol es john s henderson tic votes and jauin ii clement ont vote and that no one having received a majority of the townships there was no choice for senator on the 1st of june at mocksville nobody lias denied that in the davie con vention 1 received the votes of mocksville and calahan townships how does mr foard expect to reverse this overwhelming preponderance of the voters against him : what difference dies it make to him whether rowan county was represented at the south river convention by delegates from each township or not so that the voice of rowan county was truly heard there hrough her duly accredited del egates it is not the custom of rowan coun ty to lie represented in a senatorial conven tion i'ii tokhships she has never yet been thus represented her rule is for tiie ti*v sliips in their primary meetings and at the county convention to signify their prefer ences and the delegates appointed to attend the senatorial convention whether few or many are expected to reflect the wishes of the people of the county as thus expressed ' the reason why rowan this year sent a small delegation to south river was for the purpose of avoiding the usual incidents of a large excited angry and tumultuous body i of men rowan hoped and that ! davie would send a small committee of rep j rcsentative men to confer with the commit i tee on the part of rowan it was believed that a small delegation ol five or six from each county could settle all disputed ques j tions amicably peaceably and withoutapas i sion prejudice or bitterness every large political convention the mem j lurs of which are actuated by strong and angry partisan feelings is frequently the scene of noisy disorderly and disgraceful proceedings and this too in_spite of all the ll'orts which men who love peace and hate >. strife can make to calm tbe troubled waters and to bring about unity and concord "' mr foard in his open letter says that i the delegates met at south river and no nomination irn.t declared this is a mistake i as will appear by reference to the published proceedings i was not only declared to lie the nominee ofthe convention but i am the undisputed choice of the voters of twelve townships out of seventeen in the two coun ties mr foard seems to fear that i will at tempt to hold over him the party whip and to lash all who object to my nomina tion but i am not so devoid of sense and prudence as to wish to be elected by any but the most fair and honorable means i de mand for myself nothing but an open field nnd fair plug although i have never sought ollice i have filled several positions of trust and usefulness and whenever i bavc been a candidate before the people i have encoun tered opposition rut i have never jet been tempted to secure my election by appeals to the pasctons and prejudices of particular classes of society nor ever been forced to adopt any ofthe devices for winning votes so commonly made use ot by the polilical charlatan and intriguing demagogue in rowan and davie counties i am per sonally known to large numbers of the peo ple and my reputation and public record is known and can be read of all men it is true i am nol a farmer by profession but is it anything to my discredit because i am an humble member of a learned an honorable and a liberal profession '. why should there be any antagonism between these two classes of society there is none except when fostered and encouraged by the one class or the other i huve lived on a farm all my life and am the son ofa man who has always been a farmer and has nev er pursued any other avocation i have as much sympathy lor the farmers as a class as mr foard can possibly have and 1 am quite as fully identified with their interests as he as a member of the constitutional con vention of 1875 1 earnestly supported that amendment tothe state.oonstitution which ] compelled the legislature to create the de i partment of agriculture and during the i lasi session of the legislature 1 actively supported every good bill which was cal culated to advance not only the materia interests ofthe whole state but ofthe ag ricultural and mechanical classes in partic ular 1 endeavored to be the iricud n!ik of all classes and professions without re gard to caste race color or previous con dition experience is a safe counsellor and teaches us lessons of wisdom and discretion as i grow older i feel that i am gradually be coming more and more conservative and con eiliatarg in my principles and conduct i entered public life about seven years ago a fiery young partisan and was somewhat noisy in my denunciation of all wbo differed with mc in political opinions rut i have changed all that 1 am still as strongly at tached to the political party of wliich i have always been a member as i ever was by education by inclination and by con viction i am a democrat â€” no one can be truer than myself to bis party affiliations and alb-gi iticu but i feel more kindly and more tolerant towards my political adver saries than formerly and i have made it the rule of my publii lite not to do i wrong for the purpose of gaining a partisan triumph for this reason therefore when the majori ty ofthe democratic party in the last leg islature purposed to declare vacant the seats of three representatives one white and two colored from the counties of new hanover and pender who bud been elect ed by overwhelming majorities at the polls i protested against such a policy and as a member of the committee on privileges and flections wrote the majority report wliich retained those members in iheir seats 1 took this course because i did not believe the reasons given for the expulsion of these members to be sufficient or just for this action on my part 1 received the condemnation of many of my political asso ciates and ofthe leading democratic daily newspaper in the city of raleigh but i had what was far better â€” the approval of my own conscience i deplore as much as any man can the present depressed condition ot business and the financial embarrassment of all classes of our people - and 1 shall rejoice to sec the day wheu prosperity and contentment shall dawn again in the land but our present condition has been occasioned by a variety of-evils we arc still reaping the bitter fruits of one of the fiercest and bloodiest civil wars the world has ever seen in that mighty revolution the lower of our youth and manhood was cut off by disease and the sword our lands were laid waste our homes rendered desolate and the bulk of our property was swept away burdened with debt both public and jirivate and suffering from the most grievous oppression and misrule under the yoke of strangers for beveral yens during the era of reconstruc tion while there was little or no protection for life and property and scarcely any per sonal liberty left in the land â€” our people being systematically robbed both contrary to and under the forms of law it has been a most difficult thing for the peoplejof north cai olinn to throw off the trammels environ ing them and with new hearts and renewed courage to attempt gradually to rebuild their shattered fortunes the federal gov ernment has imposed upon us a delib erate system of tyranny espionage and op pression through the reconstruction acts of congress and corrupt and ruinous laws for the collection of internal revenue the federal administration has also forced upon the people a financial system and policy which is dragging the country to bankrupt cy aiid ruin the legislation of the state govemtneaf even under the most benefi ccnt and economical rule i not and ciin pot be ma_u perfect nn doubt there are still many unjust laws upon the statute books which ought to be repealed and can and will be in due time if the people will signify their wishes through their accredit ed representatives but legislation is some thing that requires time to perfect it i have found by my own personal experience tbat it is with the utmost difficulty that a new law jiowever good it may be esteemed by those wbo wish to secure its adoption can be passed during the session ofa single legislature legislators are unusually de liberate and cautious men tliey like to understand thoroughly a new law in all its sections and bearings before tbey will con sent to vote for it before a bill can be come a law it must usually obtain the re commendation of at least one important committee and if it then passes the house in which it has been introduced it is quite probable that it will fail to pass the other liouse it requires not only some experi ence in legislation but also skill nnd tact of no mean order for a member to succeed in securing the passage ot a new measure however advantageous he may think it to be to tbe interests of his constituents good laws are the result of experience and prac tice they must be used and tested before tliey can be pronounced admirable i shall be glad if mr foard will point out to ine what legislation he thinks is highly necessary for these times and especially what is needed to develop the agricultural resources of the state if he lias carefully elaborated and worked out a scheme which will relieve the people from debt from bus iness depression a scarcity of money and from the burdens of taxation i tender him my cordial congratulations ami shall aid lii m to the utmost of my power to obtain the passage of such an excellent bill all history will bear me out in the state ment that the man who seeks the suffrages ot the people for a legislative position by promising them some cheap patent method of legislation for relief from all their bur dens is doing what he certainly cannot ful fil it is easy to make a promise but to perform it is very difficult every honest and faithful legislator will endeavor to reflect the wishes ofhis con stituents and will vote and use his influ ence accordingly but if he promises to do the work of 170 persons sitting in two houses guaranteeing to obtain tlieir votes for his favorite measures be will lind by making only one trial that he has promised in rain i am not responsible for the controvesy which basso recently been the theme of discussion as to whether rowan or davie is entitled to name the senator this year i have never sought the nomination and did not even consent to the use of my name in connection with the position until 1 had been assured by prominent citizens of davie county that davie would not only be per fectly satisfied with me but lhat she did not claim the right to name the senator and that it was perfectly understood in davie that it was rowan's turn i have before me at this writing a recent letter fiom a gen tlemen ot the highe t character and of great influence in davie county and whose views i have not previously had the benefit of in which be says up to the time of davie's county meeting i had never heard of any person claiming that it was davie's turn to furnish the candidate thought we bad no contest with rowan on that score i was also assured that there had been a distinct agreement between the two counties in the yea 187*1 that rowan should have the riglit to name the candidates for the years 187(1 and 1878 my own investigations con firmed whltt my davie friends had repre sented to me the following is the record of the sena tors elected in the two counties for a series of years i sii i win b march of davie county 18(16 h f johnston of davie county 1868 wm m robbins of rowan county 1870 win m robbins of rowan county 1 s7 charles price of davie county 1874 john il clement of davie county 1876 w ii crawford of rowan county 1878 i have made the year 1804 the starting point because in that year the old whig and democratic parties having previously disbanded in the presence ofthe public en emy bad become united as one party but if that shall be considered too far hack we ought to begin with the year 1st â€” the first election after tbe last senatorial apportion ment however if you begin at the time of the adoption of the new constitution in the year 1808 there will be no diticrence iu the result according to tbe record the custom has been and 1 suppose will not be departed from until the two counties adopt a different rule for each county to name tbe candidate for two succcsmvc terms and so on alternately f i had foreseen llie present complications at the st in i should most certainly have iclustil to tie a candidate for weeks aud weeks iny name w is be fore the people ot itowan and davie without a com petitor nearly all tiie townships tn rowan eountj , witii singular unanimity declared lur mc at tin pri on iry meetings the itowan count convention declared for me without a murmur of opposition mr foard had not been voted tor at anyot the town ship meetings franklin township handed tn no vote tor sen itor on the first ballot at the county convention and i did not know until very recently that the franklin delegation had ati er wards taken tb ballot and that the delegates present when thai vote was taken had declared for mr foard tne lirst intimation l had that l was going to have oppo sition was on henilng the result oi ihe jerusalem meeting ot the 6u ot maj dp to that time i had tally understood that the people or davie had sot ued down to the belief thut i was lobe the candi date my name bad heen before the people of the two counties ever since the latter port or march the kowan township meetings were held on lie 20th of apiil and ihe county convention on the tsih of may mr koard's allegation therefore that i and my friends have been opposing him and the luioresl which he represents is an entire mistake on the contrary i have recently become the target for him and his friends to shoot at being shot at too mainly lu che house of my own immediate friends iiie war against me being one of unrelent ing bitterness i am to be proscribed and ostracized not because i have done any wrong noi because 1 have proved recreant to any public duty noi be cause i am not'pialllied for the position but simply an.l solely as is untruly al.eged because i am uc'i fully identified with the farming interest ther is no natural or real antagonism between a lawyer and a farmer but ln my case i was born lu a far mer's house and have never had an other bomi and the insinuation lhat i am hostile io thn farming class because i have studied and practiced law is not only untrue out preposterous and absurd i have none but the kindest personal feelings for mr foard and his family our relations have al ways been most cordl.il one of his sons i have al ways regarded not only as a warm supporter of mine but a personal friend i regret the necessity for this personal contest tt-hich has been forced un me i aid out provoke it lt is therefore impossible for me to withdraw from the canvass and succumb to what 1 cannot but re gard as intimidation and threat the letter ot mr w ii hobson ami hindi ig mr foard as a candidate was wiiii a on tne monday following the senatorial convention sun lay only intervening and the same issue of the h'atehman which officially informed me of the proceedings of the convention contained sucn announcement and on the day after such issue mr foard's card was published i am now in the hands of my friends and will yield only to them or to the decision of the people at uie ballot box if } ou shall do me the honor to elect me to th state senate on he first tnursday in august i promise to serve jou diligently faithfully and zeal ously and will eudeauirio discharge the duties id the position with all tin skill and ability wtyuh god has given me it is urn leceosa/y to add that i am in favor of an honest and 4k_)%oini dadinin istra uon of public u:i.tirs an 1 ol parity ability and lq tegiitj m the conduct ol j,.eiy department of ifie government this is no omo for distraction alienation and divi sion anions tbose ot tbe same household party bonds are loosening prejudices are being removed and the jk'ople of all classes and parties lu north carolina and the southern states are beginning to come together in a spirit ol conciliation and good feeling the time has come tor higher aspirations than mere party bickerings and claw jealousies and prejudices if the voters of kowan and davie en tertain such views i confidently appeal to them to aid in my election and thus put their seal ot con demnation upon a programme and policy of narrow ness and intolerance the success ot whicli would be a burning disgrace to the spirit of the liberal and enlightened age ln which we live with very blgli regard i beg leave to subscribe myself your friend and obedient servant john s henderson i july 9 1st8 " her st00--i-t did it ~ she was very pretty â€” but there came a time when i don't think i cared tbe least for her beauty â€” hersoul was so much more attractive than her body she was no bum i ble wild-flower maiden but a woman who ' had received a magnificent dower of blue blood including taleut aud all that cul ; tore could develop in n beautiful and in ; tellecttial woman washers all that wealth | could bestow upon her she possessed she had the good fortune to have no singular ity of nature but all was a symmetrical and very harmonious whole i loved ber nud i possessed the humble ness of true love the more intimately i knew her she made me conscious of things i that were mean in myself unt of this feeling grew jealousy of other men a bitter jealously she was of too sunny ; and generous a temper to pick for flaws nor could she know a man as other men knew him she could not understand that dr cos grove was irritable in private as he was suave and agreeable in public and 1 would * not tell her that capt langdale seldom paid his debts they were but two of her many admirers and they were both hand 1 somer and showier than myself in time i was miserable ou their account i i cannot now in cold blood accuse her ' of coquetry but stephenie st jean was j of french blood on her father's side be ' side speaking that language perfectly she had the french woman's secret of fascina tion a trifle more in vivacity when sur 1 rounded by gentlemen made her utterly irresistible i saw and felt the charm and could not , content myself with the thought that in the quiet hours we passed together 1 knew 1 m y self dear to her many a winter evening had we sat together on the little velvet sofa before the drawing-room fire secure irom intrusion her beautiful hand resting on my arm content iu her cyca happiness iu her smile aud yet swearing her to t be the proudest and most delicate of wo men i was mildly jealoiis of other men for months 1 would not see her alone she was one of a large family and she had a favorite cousin lilly lawton who was her constant companion i she was veiy young and a blight sweet little thing ; but of late she had seemed i drooping as if out of health and steph enie had been unusually prole the and kind for stepheuie's sake i often took lilly i out to drive though her exceeding sim ! plicity often bored mc 1 could not but wonder that stephenie j associated with her so constantly ; but ! lilly worshipped her magnificent cousin ' and the latter blighted in being kind to j those weaker than herself kitten she called lilly and there had been something : especially kittenish in the girl's round bright gray eyes and playful graceful ways her special charm was gone now she was a pale faded spiritless little thing stephenie kept her constantly under her wing kitten must have green fields and pastures new she said the may suns are getting strong and i too long for a country trip wo are going to branch - ville and shall be absent about a week mind you are a good boy till wo come back i smiled but on tho wrong side of my lace a week i murmured a week and one day she laughed i shall be gray-headed when you come back i said smiling at my own vexa tion she laughed more gaily than ever ; then a shadow fell over her face it is for lilly's sake she whispered look at her lilly lay ou a hammock ou the piazza her hands lying listlessly iu her lap not a shade of color in her cheek the thought came to me that the child certainly was bound for the land of shad ows she must have help soon,1 said steph enie yes 1 answered i saw them off ou the morning train kitten with her cheek on stepheuie's shoulder i carried the picture before my eyes all the week my magnificent gen erous brunette supporting the failing strength of that pale fair-faced child and 1 had never loved her better in my life j than in the phase a week and a day stephenie had said : i therefore i had no expectation of seeing ! her when at the end office days i enter j ed tiie drawing-room of her father's house i to find au opera glass i had left there i had told the servant at the hall door | what my errand was and that i knew â– just where to look for the glass but on { the threshold of the apartment my steps were arrested by the sound of stepheuie's voice a rush of delight went over inc i was about to spring forward when i discover ed stephenie was seated in the alcove of au inner room beside a geutleuian is tood irresolute a curtain of blue skil fell across the upper part of the figures but upon it their shadows lay as they sat against tbe sunny windows beyond and plainly outlined stepheuie's beauti ful head and captain lonsdale's pro file i did not mean to be a listener to tlieir conversation but as i demurred about go ing forward i distinctly heard stephenie say : i love you utterly with all my heart i am not ashamed to say this because yon will never see nre again she continued talking but bei voice fell to a low monotone aud i realized my po sition and stumbled backward out of the room ami found myself in the street go ing dizzily home like some hunted thing i rushed to my room and hid myself from all eyes i remember throwing myself upon a couch and then starting up and walking the room looking at my pale face in the glass taking up books and opening as if to read them doing all sorts of uninten tional things in a mechanical way trying not to think of the revelation that bad come to ine because it seemed 1 should go mud if 1 did but a haunting voice was crying iu my car stephenie â€” lost ste phenie ! xo no she i.s mine !" i cried in dis pair 1 have loved bet so long and so well and she is my only darling what could i do without her ? jh god what can i do for the truth would not be gainsaid and must be faced with mine own eats i had heard her say to another man i love you ami what i may have murmur ed in moments of impatience i knew in my soul that stephenie st jean was no coquette captain langdale had been ordered to his regiment and she had probably return ed home to bid him farewell a soldier's life i.s always in peril and in the moment of parting stephenie bad confessed to him what i never had suspected heaven knows that i had no reason and i had good cause to think differently she had never plighted her troth to me but by word and look and sweet privileges she had accepted my love and 1 had such utter faith in her truth that the possibility of her deceiving mc had never ocurred to my mind the warmest and teudcrest intimacy existed between us and yet she never had given her promise to marry me sick at heart i realized it uow review ing the past in the hateful light of my midden discovery i was a lawyer and in the long hours of that utterly sleepless night i studied the case untiringly as if it had not been my owu lt was not a matter of mistaken identi ty leaving out the consideration that my heart would never mistake stepheu ie's voice i distinctly saw the outline of her bust and her dress revealed below the curtain was very familiar to me it was of cream-colored silk trimmed with black lace ou her foot she wore a pretty black satin shoe with a silver buc kle and the instep showed a cream-color ed stocking embroidered with silken buds and vines the dress and the stocking with its em broidery were all of the same tint and the whole costume of but two colors â€” cream and black as she sat within the blue curtain the artistic effect was very beautiful ah uo it was stephenie peerless among women and in heartsick misery i at length gave up the lost cause the gray dawn was stealing in at my window its sweet breeze bathing my ach ing temples when 1 sat down at my desk and penned my farewell letter stephenie i cannot trust myself to see you again i am as weak as a child and worn out with such suffering as i pray you may never know inadvertantly yesterday i heard you confess your heart to captain langdale i beard you say that you loved him then vou did not love me god only knows how utterly i believed you did aud what fervent gratitude and hapiness there was tome in that belief oh my darling how could you let itic wreck my heait on the shoals of your mere careless liking i was only a congenial friend a pleasant companion vour heart was his aud his alone farewell ! this passionate incoherent letter i di rected to her then called my valet pierre pack my trunks we will go down to black rocks for ihe summer the man started pardon monsieur it i.s very dull down there no gunning no fishing and uo young ladies !*' and consequently no waiting maids for vou to ogle i answered with a dreary attempt at ease and lightness of spirits but the fellow still looked at me monsieur looks very ill i ill bid the doctor to call on you and if he con seu ts we will go to that horrid place to morrow nonsense '.* i shall be well enough af ter a bath and some breakfast done be impertinent pierre we start on the 10 o'clock train black rock was not inhabited by fash ionable society : this was my ouly reason i â– :,: choosiugit the neptune hoc se where ill iii â– â– â– __â– â– â– â€” l i took up my abode was a large rambling old fashioned inn not the least in the world like a modern seaside hotel my valet of course arranged the con veniences of my life consequently i did not know the dark skinned old woman ! who one day presented herself at the door of my apartment with a long covered baa | ket upon ber arm my man was dusting ; a coat on the back piazza there is some one nt the door pierre,'1 i said to him as i sat in the window with a book which i was not reading it is the washerwoman she is a verv nice laundress monsieur yes i said indifferently pay her he received the carefully coveted bas ket settled the bill und the woman de parted pierre prepared to arrange my linen by opening â€ž bureau drawer i turned a page of my book as he withdrew the white cloth from the basket when my attcutiou was arrested by his exclamations mon dien laces ruffles what's the matter pierre *?" these are ladies things here is a wrapper with muted ruffies white skirts and ha ha f â€” embroidered stockings mees betsey mees betsey come back !" he dropped the basket on the floor and rushed after the old woman i glanced within and saw a mass of snowy lace and embroideries beautiful as a bed of lilies the clothing too dainty aud expensive to belong to any but a lady and 1 wondered who the owner might be in one corner wa.s a pile of hosiery the stockings were not all white oue pair was of cream color with a silk embroide ry of buds and vines and while i was carelessly considering how and when such exquisite needle work was done the thought dashed across me that i had seen that very pattern of silken rose-bud on stephenie st jean's foot my hand trembled i dropped t.io book as pierre came rushing back with the panting old woman , ves 1 have left the wrong basket the other outside is yours sir hope you'll ! excuse me 1 am getting old and forget ful stay,"1 i said breathlessly whom are the lady's things for ?'' for the young lady down stairs who came last week sit miss st dean i'll take them away direcl iy unheeding the wondering eyes of the two i snatched up a handkerchief on i which i saw a name marked yes it wa.s stepheuie " 1 grew i'.iiol an.l itiineo away io little my emotion my hand shook as ! snatch ed up my hat and rushed out of doors the sun was setting across the water the waves danced blood-red in its light the air had grown cool and a pair of singing shore birds flew before me as i sought a favorite seat of mine retired among the rocks i had not composed my mind when there was a rustle of silk am a soft baud was laid on my arm forest !" stephenie !" you know i am here now aud so 1 have come to speak to you she sat down close beside me facing me her arms across my knee her clear blue eyes steadily meeting mine and be fore sho spoke a wind i took thu fair i hand tenderly feeling that she was to be restored to mc forest i have been here a week wish ing to see yon yet repelled by your deter mined seclusion if the old woman called aunt betsey who frequents this place had nol told me to-night that accident had revealed iny presence to you i slionld have lost my remnant of courage and re turned home without speaking to you what have you to say to me uow stephenie ?"' vou overheard me talking as you sup posed to captain langdale forest i was reading a letter a letter r i have a startling story to tell listen all the spring my cousin lily's malady had seemed strange to me 1 could not understand her loss of strength ami color until i learned by occupying the next apartment to her at uraucbville that she spent her nights in weeping while i wondered that she should have a secret trouble from me and perplexed myself how to gain her confidence i entered her room one moniing and found it to be full of a strange sickening scent while lily lay senseless upon the bed she had ta ken u opiate powerful enough to pro duce death and upon the table lay two letters hue was addressed to me the other to captain langdale as soon as i had procured assistance and a physician's help h id saved hei life i read the letter the mÂ»or child had ad dressed to me poor kitten ! her heart was breaking for she had set it on one friend mid she believed that he loved me i am speaking of caplnin langdale he ia handsome gay and debonnaire and tin pooi girl believed him necessary to her existence so she confessed to me \Â» t her heart seemed to hold no bitterness foi her supposed rival she had always loved me he said and i was more worthy her hero bnt she wis so pitifully miserable poor little tiling well i considered the matter carcfullv i was only an hour's ride from captain langdale and i resolved to see hitu i-iiy j â– !â€¢. sje-'piug a restorative slumber and i could go to the city and return in about three hours i did so when i i.ached the depot i sent a car riage for him to come to our house 11 cam and read the letter our soldier lias a tender heart he was uvccud to tears v y ihe ,;,,. ]( t.(t j bidding me to read it aload as i did so you entered and heard the woids which so misled you her eyes were swimming as thev met mine bnt after an instant she went on captain langdale showed deeper ami more delicate feeling than 1 had suppose him capable of if little lily thinks such harum scarum fellows as i am worth dying for 1 ought t make myself worthy of t'i e blessing of such love '" he said and added i will give myslef to kitten to-morrow if sho wants me and i will be a bettermatitban i ever have been for her sake so said stephenie brightening there is to be a marriage it earir an t my lilly i8 quito 1,,pv in the prospects of sharing a boldier's life and and blushing radiantly and fastening one beauteous look into my eyes there may be a double wedding if vou please de.tr !" i tell my wife my happiness wns saved by such a fragile thing as an embroidered stocking certainly for this world and 1 believe for the next an enterprising reporter li-*>r.i the new york sun riiere was a picnic in eby's grove near dayton ohio one day some of tho young men wandered down the river in a secluded nook they discovered a pile of female clothing the looked into tho river for signs of life or death but saw nothing a newspaper reporter tool down all ihe surroundings rummaged among the clothes and found there were several cts or suits of them little and big in one ofthe pockets a love letter was found written by hal to julia tim clothing was tenderly bundled up and taken to the picnic camp stuffed until r a buggy scat the party started home feel ing very sad it did not occur to them at oacc ih,u it was a little strange that a young woman and two or three little girls should commit suicide all al once it was perhaps julia and her iiuie sisters who had thus plunged into eternity jl was a very sad case all agreed disap pointed love perhaps md ou the theory of suicide the love letter would be a good thine for thn aca-.i-.nut tlm clothe wi-rii taken to ti police office the reporter was satisfied that !'â– had a good tiling the account was read evidently for earlj in the morning an angrj father camo riging into police quarters demanding the clothes his daughter had taken a walk on the ri cr bank with two or three little neighbor givls and the place being secluded and the temperature warm and the water im it ing they concluded to take a bath soon they heard voice in the woods and hid them ives in the bushes hey huddled together is quiet as mice until the intruding yonng men had como and gone gone with their clothes the only thing they could do was to remain quietly where they were until after dark and then steal to their homes in tin kind ly shadows of ui jhl . â€” â€” â€” tiie end of the cabarrus enoch arden ask it will be remembered that some time ago the observer told the story of an enoch arden case in cabarrus a mi dodson had married a mr lamhaidt and after awhile he left lu the course of time she was married to a mr jjiscu heimer and years afterwards mr earn hardt re uned to find bis wife surroun ded by a family of children ml his own unlike tbe historic arden he did not al ter looking in through the open window upon the happy scene wipes tear from his sun-burnt faco and refuse to disturb it but in wanted to claim ins own the wife whieh was formerly his asked foi a divore from him and at the last term of cabarrus court just closed ibe case was hear 1 and the divorce granted mr mia ciiik iuier then very properly took steps to have the legitimacy of his children es tablished and next monday he will b re married to the woman of whose joys and sorrows l.e has for the last hall dozen years been aiaithful sharer ch -,. ob political i hxtribu ph>xs although the presi lent insists lli .* ho refusal on the i u ; of iv lend a ers to pay auythiug foi camj ii pnr | wises wiil not wih-k to r'e .. prejudice v et the opinion seem - 'Â«' i â– by the truly loyal ones in the i in departments th.it the be liiuig to ii-i ; i to respond to the cail unide foi the i â€¢â€¢*. oluntun couti .-.-.. io â€¢" â– â– | h r . . can coiigi*esÂ»*o:iaj committee i â– ,. certained by im ;.. â– . : 1 1 b en a veiy general re-spouse to the call for money and thai the u ... have tailed to make subscriptions is .. few the talk that it will not injure tho standing nf au employee to refuse to con tribute is uot accepted with iu'.i faith i j those most interested otherwise t.'i * i e pu'u'.icui committee would uot have su much money as they now have .*.: tkeif command

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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c july 18 1878 no 39 hit hex dei-son's address t the people of the soth senatorial district â– â– .. or of rotean and daeie ., -, .. ietter of mr hobson which appears ; . ' watchman of the 3d inst supple ; "Â»!___â€ž is by tl open letter of mr th c foard to the farmers and median j ,* rowan and davie leaves mc no al ; 5__tive but to pick up the gauntlet which ; j "' â€ž tlewen have se defiantly thrown ' mr hobson as ( hairman of the e delegation authorizes the editor of watchman to announce j c hoard as -'"" , ,.,,-" davie county for the sen *Â»â– Â£ cm mr holj.-lleg.s_.-the ri of l.'davie deletion â€¢â€¢ whether â€¢'' _,â€žâ– it so how many nl the davie i:uc,'"au.le.ri/e,rmr.hobs,,,,t,,,,,akc .\?_ nnounceni-nt as chairman ol that : s has thought proper t explain did â– ,.:.. of them do so : when and where ipe . ob-on's delegation meet and 1 the people of davie county have notice rina.iv v.av-v.iitl.orize mich meeting : ' >[,- hob-ion attended the senatorial con n which met at south river on sat ,â€ž.*â€¢,â€¢, theifttil dav of june participated in ,',,.. deliberations of that liody and acted as rh-innanÂ«Â»ftÂ»iei)aviedel-gation thepro lines of that convention as puolisne m ,,â€ž. watchman ofthe 3d inst do not show l,,t lie withdrew from the con vention or ,,;,, n,,(..ted against its action forthe formation of the voters ol rowan and da vit i herewith subjoin a imrf summary ol the proceedings of thai body frank brown of rowan was elected pre lllllt s j tatum of davie secretary the following named delegates were present : from rowan jno w mauney frank ]-,,,â€žâ€ž. w ii overman c ii mekenzie knd wm r fraley km da dr.j.w.faisondr.j.w wiseman t f eaton b i smith w i . ilt*l_sÂ»n w t picklcr w f smith frank , r li bailey j l adams and j i woodruff . . . . 0n m ulion ., jomt committee o three from ,..â€žâ– ;,,,â– â– . ,--, ns appointed to decide which , ... i v hnd the right to nam the senator nc felegation from each county separated lu,l appointed its own members ofthis com mittee ,â€ž ., ... ,, itowan v'e ted jno n . mauney \Â» in r | fraley and c h mekenzie davie select j l w ii holurn br j w iscman and 1 |. woodruff thccommitt c retired and | after deliberating returned and mr mauney l the m ii r ty reported thai rowan was entitled to name the senator - four members of the committee voting in the majority mr hobson tor the minority protested againsl the report of the majority two member ofthe committee voting in the mi nority the majority report was lost by a vote of 7 against 8 both majority and mi i _>;â– ;*, reports were then laid on the table alter much discus-ion as to the mode ol voting mr mauncj moved that each coun â– *, ik entitled to vote according to its dun ; erratic strength at the election iu november stt this method giving rowan 22 votes and tr ie 11 motion adopted by a vote of s to ii t davie men and i kowan men vo ting in the affirmative and six davie men in the negative messrs john c foard and john s llcii i.tnoii were then put in nomination and the convention proceeded lo ballot for sen ator itowan cast 20 votes for mr mender min and j vote for mr foard : conceding to lhe latter the vote of franklin township mr v ii hobson declined to report the vote of davie county bul mr b bailey on in-half of the minority ot the davie delega tion reported 1 fi votes from davie for sir henderson which the chairman refused to allow to be counted upon the ground that it would be a breach of parliamentary eti quctte to recognize any vote not banded in by the chairman ofa delegation the votes of two town-hips for mr foard were also tendered to the president wliich ho declin ed to allow to be counted the president then announced that mr henderson having received a majority of the votes cast had received the nomination ofthe convention ynu will observe that the action ot the convention was deliberate and regular and tlmt i received a char majority ofthe dem ocratic votes of the two counties to wit : ten-elevenths ol the vote of rowan and about two fifths of the vote of davie rep resenting ten townships in rowan and two in davie tieelee iu all out of seventeen in the two counties it i insisted however without proof that several of the townships of rowan county which were represented as having declared for me and whose vote 1 received nt the senatorial convention are not really for ine but for mr foard which are ihev '. is it scotch irish that township voted for mc almost unanimously at the priman meet ing and was solid for me in the rowan county convrn ion i it unity that gave mc a unanimous vote at the township meet ing and also in the county convention 1 it mt 1'lla : that acted in the same way as did also locke i defy the friends of mr foard to name a single township in rowan county t he vote of whi h was count ed for me in the senatorial coin cut ion m here he received any voles \\ hatever cither at the primary meetings or in the rowan county convention and in franklin town ship which the friends of mr foard claim to be so strong for aim no ballot was taken at the primary meeting mr foard says that the county of davie met in convention aud voting by town hi'i recommended his name that same c invention recommended my name and also the name of mr john 11 chimin tbe of ficial report of the davie county conven tion doo not show that mr foard receive 1 the vole of a majority of the townships rep resented in that convention the secretary of that convention in an official letter which i presume is now in the hands of the late secretary of the senatorial convention stat ed positively thai at the davie county con vention john c foard received thn vol es john s henderson tic votes and jauin ii clement ont vote and that no one having received a majority of the townships there was no choice for senator on the 1st of june at mocksville nobody lias denied that in the davie con vention 1 received the votes of mocksville and calahan townships how does mr foard expect to reverse this overwhelming preponderance of the voters against him : what difference dies it make to him whether rowan county was represented at the south river convention by delegates from each township or not so that the voice of rowan county was truly heard there hrough her duly accredited del egates it is not the custom of rowan coun ty to lie represented in a senatorial conven tion i'ii tokhships she has never yet been thus represented her rule is for tiie ti*v sliips in their primary meetings and at the county convention to signify their prefer ences and the delegates appointed to attend the senatorial convention whether few or many are expected to reflect the wishes of the people of the county as thus expressed ' the reason why rowan this year sent a small delegation to south river was for the purpose of avoiding the usual incidents of a large excited angry and tumultuous body i of men rowan hoped and that ! davie would send a small committee of rep j rcsentative men to confer with the commit i tee on the part of rowan it was believed that a small delegation ol five or six from each county could settle all disputed ques j tions amicably peaceably and withoutapas i sion prejudice or bitterness every large political convention the mem j lurs of which are actuated by strong and angry partisan feelings is frequently the scene of noisy disorderly and disgraceful proceedings and this too in_spite of all the ll'orts which men who love peace and hate >. strife can make to calm tbe troubled waters and to bring about unity and concord "' mr foard in his open letter says that i the delegates met at south river and no nomination irn.t declared this is a mistake i as will appear by reference to the published proceedings i was not only declared to lie the nominee ofthe convention but i am the undisputed choice of the voters of twelve townships out of seventeen in the two coun ties mr foard seems to fear that i will at tempt to hold over him the party whip and to lash all who object to my nomina tion but i am not so devoid of sense and prudence as to wish to be elected by any but the most fair and honorable means i de mand for myself nothing but an open field nnd fair plug although i have never sought ollice i have filled several positions of trust and usefulness and whenever i bavc been a candidate before the people i have encoun tered opposition rut i have never jet been tempted to secure my election by appeals to the pasctons and prejudices of particular classes of society nor ever been forced to adopt any ofthe devices for winning votes so commonly made use ot by the polilical charlatan and intriguing demagogue in rowan and davie counties i am per sonally known to large numbers of the peo ple and my reputation and public record is known and can be read of all men it is true i am nol a farmer by profession but is it anything to my discredit because i am an humble member of a learned an honorable and a liberal profession '. why should there be any antagonism between these two classes of society there is none except when fostered and encouraged by the one class or the other i huve lived on a farm all my life and am the son ofa man who has always been a farmer and has nev er pursued any other avocation i have as much sympathy lor the farmers as a class as mr foard can possibly have and 1 am quite as fully identified with their interests as he as a member of the constitutional con vention of 1875 1 earnestly supported that amendment tothe state.oonstitution which ] compelled the legislature to create the de i partment of agriculture and during the i lasi session of the legislature 1 actively supported every good bill which was cal culated to advance not only the materia interests ofthe whole state but ofthe ag ricultural and mechanical classes in partic ular 1 endeavored to be the iricud n!ik of all classes and professions without re gard to caste race color or previous con dition experience is a safe counsellor and teaches us lessons of wisdom and discretion as i grow older i feel that i am gradually be coming more and more conservative and con eiliatarg in my principles and conduct i entered public life about seven years ago a fiery young partisan and was somewhat noisy in my denunciation of all wbo differed with mc in political opinions rut i have changed all that 1 am still as strongly at tached to the political party of wliich i have always been a member as i ever was by education by inclination and by con viction i am a democrat â€” no one can be truer than myself to bis party affiliations and alb-gi iticu but i feel more kindly and more tolerant towards my political adver saries than formerly and i have made it the rule of my publii lite not to do i wrong for the purpose of gaining a partisan triumph for this reason therefore when the majori ty ofthe democratic party in the last leg islature purposed to declare vacant the seats of three representatives one white and two colored from the counties of new hanover and pender who bud been elect ed by overwhelming majorities at the polls i protested against such a policy and as a member of the committee on privileges and flections wrote the majority report wliich retained those members in iheir seats 1 took this course because i did not believe the reasons given for the expulsion of these members to be sufficient or just for this action on my part 1 received the condemnation of many of my political asso ciates and ofthe leading democratic daily newspaper in the city of raleigh but i had what was far better â€” the approval of my own conscience i deplore as much as any man can the present depressed condition ot business and the financial embarrassment of all classes of our people - and 1 shall rejoice to sec the day wheu prosperity and contentment shall dawn again in the land but our present condition has been occasioned by a variety of-evils we arc still reaping the bitter fruits of one of the fiercest and bloodiest civil wars the world has ever seen in that mighty revolution the lower of our youth and manhood was cut off by disease and the sword our lands were laid waste our homes rendered desolate and the bulk of our property was swept away burdened with debt both public and jirivate and suffering from the most grievous oppression and misrule under the yoke of strangers for beveral yens during the era of reconstruc tion while there was little or no protection for life and property and scarcely any per sonal liberty left in the land â€” our people being systematically robbed both contrary to and under the forms of law it has been a most difficult thing for the peoplejof north cai olinn to throw off the trammels environ ing them and with new hearts and renewed courage to attempt gradually to rebuild their shattered fortunes the federal gov ernment has imposed upon us a delib erate system of tyranny espionage and op pression through the reconstruction acts of congress and corrupt and ruinous laws for the collection of internal revenue the federal administration has also forced upon the people a financial system and policy which is dragging the country to bankrupt cy aiid ruin the legislation of the state govemtneaf even under the most benefi ccnt and economical rule i not and ciin pot be ma_u perfect nn doubt there are still many unjust laws upon the statute books which ought to be repealed and can and will be in due time if the people will signify their wishes through their accredit ed representatives but legislation is some thing that requires time to perfect it i have found by my own personal experience tbat it is with the utmost difficulty that a new law jiowever good it may be esteemed by those wbo wish to secure its adoption can be passed during the session ofa single legislature legislators are unusually de liberate and cautious men tliey like to understand thoroughly a new law in all its sections and bearings before tbey will con sent to vote for it before a bill can be come a law it must usually obtain the re commendation of at least one important committee and if it then passes the house in which it has been introduced it is quite probable that it will fail to pass the other liouse it requires not only some experi ence in legislation but also skill nnd tact of no mean order for a member to succeed in securing the passage ot a new measure however advantageous he may think it to be to tbe interests of his constituents good laws are the result of experience and prac tice they must be used and tested before tliey can be pronounced admirable i shall be glad if mr foard will point out to ine what legislation he thinks is highly necessary for these times and especially what is needed to develop the agricultural resources of the state if he lias carefully elaborated and worked out a scheme which will relieve the people from debt from bus iness depression a scarcity of money and from the burdens of taxation i tender him my cordial congratulations ami shall aid lii m to the utmost of my power to obtain the passage of such an excellent bill all history will bear me out in the state ment that the man who seeks the suffrages ot the people for a legislative position by promising them some cheap patent method of legislation for relief from all their bur dens is doing what he certainly cannot ful fil it is easy to make a promise but to perform it is very difficult every honest and faithful legislator will endeavor to reflect the wishes ofhis con stituents and will vote and use his influ ence accordingly but if he promises to do the work of 170 persons sitting in two houses guaranteeing to obtain tlieir votes for his favorite measures be will lind by making only one trial that he has promised in rain i am not responsible for the controvesy which basso recently been the theme of discussion as to whether rowan or davie is entitled to name the senator this year i have never sought the nomination and did not even consent to the use of my name in connection with the position until 1 had been assured by prominent citizens of davie county that davie would not only be per fectly satisfied with me but lhat she did not claim the right to name the senator and that it was perfectly understood in davie that it was rowan's turn i have before me at this writing a recent letter fiom a gen tlemen ot the highe t character and of great influence in davie county and whose views i have not previously had the benefit of in which be says up to the time of davie's county meeting i had never heard of any person claiming that it was davie's turn to furnish the candidate thought we bad no contest with rowan on that score i was also assured that there had been a distinct agreement between the two counties in the yea 187*1 that rowan should have the riglit to name the candidates for the years 187(1 and 1878 my own investigations con firmed whltt my davie friends had repre sented to me the following is the record of the sena tors elected in the two counties for a series of years i sii i win b march of davie county 18(16 h f johnston of davie county 1868 wm m robbins of rowan county 1870 win m robbins of rowan county 1 s7 charles price of davie county 1874 john il clement of davie county 1876 w ii crawford of rowan county 1878 i have made the year 1804 the starting point because in that year the old whig and democratic parties having previously disbanded in the presence ofthe public en emy bad become united as one party but if that shall be considered too far hack we ought to begin with the year 1st â€” the first election after tbe last senatorial apportion ment however if you begin at the time of the adoption of the new constitution in the year 1808 there will be no diticrence iu the result according to tbe record the custom has been and 1 suppose will not be departed from until the two counties adopt a different rule for each county to name tbe candidate for two succcsmvc terms and so on alternately f i had foreseen llie present complications at the st in i should most certainly have iclustil to tie a candidate for weeks aud weeks iny name w is be fore the people ot itowan and davie without a com petitor nearly all tiie townships tn rowan eountj , witii singular unanimity declared lur mc at tin pri on iry meetings the itowan count convention declared for me without a murmur of opposition mr foard had not been voted tor at anyot the town ship meetings franklin township handed tn no vote tor sen itor on the first ballot at the county convention and i did not know until very recently that the franklin delegation had ati er wards taken tb ballot and that the delegates present when thai vote was taken had declared for mr foard tne lirst intimation l had that l was going to have oppo sition was on henilng the result oi ihe jerusalem meeting ot the 6u ot maj dp to that time i had tally understood that the people or davie had sot ued down to the belief thut i was lobe the candi date my name bad heen before the people of the two counties ever since the latter port or march the kowan township meetings were held on lie 20th of apiil and ihe county convention on the tsih of may mr koard's allegation therefore that i and my friends have been opposing him and the luioresl which he represents is an entire mistake on the contrary i have recently become the target for him and his friends to shoot at being shot at too mainly lu che house of my own immediate friends iiie war against me being one of unrelent ing bitterness i am to be proscribed and ostracized not because i have done any wrong noi because 1 have proved recreant to any public duty noi be cause i am not'pialllied for the position but simply an.l solely as is untruly al.eged because i am uc'i fully identified with the farming interest ther is no natural or real antagonism between a lawyer and a farmer but ln my case i was born lu a far mer's house and have never had an other bomi and the insinuation lhat i am hostile io thn farming class because i have studied and practiced law is not only untrue out preposterous and absurd i have none but the kindest personal feelings for mr foard and his family our relations have al ways been most cordl.il one of his sons i have al ways regarded not only as a warm supporter of mine but a personal friend i regret the necessity for this personal contest tt-hich has been forced un me i aid out provoke it lt is therefore impossible for me to withdraw from the canvass and succumb to what 1 cannot but re gard as intimidation and threat the letter ot mr w ii hobson ami hindi ig mr foard as a candidate was wiiii a on tne monday following the senatorial convention sun lay only intervening and the same issue of the h'atehman which officially informed me of the proceedings of the convention contained sucn announcement and on the day after such issue mr foard's card was published i am now in the hands of my friends and will yield only to them or to the decision of the people at uie ballot box if } ou shall do me the honor to elect me to th state senate on he first tnursday in august i promise to serve jou diligently faithfully and zeal ously and will eudeauirio discharge the duties id the position with all tin skill and ability wtyuh god has given me it is urn leceosa/y to add that i am in favor of an honest and 4k_)%oini dadinin istra uon of public u:i.tirs an 1 ol parity ability and lq tegiitj m the conduct ol j,.eiy department of ifie government this is no omo for distraction alienation and divi sion anions tbose ot tbe same household party bonds are loosening prejudices are being removed and the jk'ople of all classes and parties lu north carolina and the southern states are beginning to come together in a spirit ol conciliation and good feeling the time has come tor higher aspirations than mere party bickerings and claw jealousies and prejudices if the voters of kowan and davie en tertain such views i confidently appeal to them to aid in my election and thus put their seal ot con demnation upon a programme and policy of narrow ness and intolerance the success ot whicli would be a burning disgrace to the spirit of the liberal and enlightened age ln which we live with very blgli regard i beg leave to subscribe myself your friend and obedient servant john s henderson i july 9 1st8 " her st00--i-t did it ~ she was very pretty â€” but there came a time when i don't think i cared tbe least for her beauty â€” hersoul was so much more attractive than her body she was no bum i ble wild-flower maiden but a woman who ' had received a magnificent dower of blue blood including taleut aud all that cul ; tore could develop in n beautiful and in ; tellecttial woman washers all that wealth | could bestow upon her she possessed she had the good fortune to have no singular ity of nature but all was a symmetrical and very harmonious whole i loved ber nud i possessed the humble ness of true love the more intimately i knew her she made me conscious of things i that were mean in myself unt of this feeling grew jealousy of other men a bitter jealously she was of too sunny ; and generous a temper to pick for flaws nor could she know a man as other men knew him she could not understand that dr cos grove was irritable in private as he was suave and agreeable in public and 1 would * not tell her that capt langdale seldom paid his debts they were but two of her many admirers and they were both hand 1 somer and showier than myself in time i was miserable ou their account i i cannot now in cold blood accuse her ' of coquetry but stephenie st jean was j of french blood on her father's side be ' side speaking that language perfectly she had the french woman's secret of fascina tion a trifle more in vivacity when sur 1 rounded by gentlemen made her utterly irresistible i saw and felt the charm and could not , content myself with the thought that in the quiet hours we passed together 1 knew 1 m y self dear to her many a winter evening had we sat together on the little velvet sofa before the drawing-room fire secure irom intrusion her beautiful hand resting on my arm content iu her cyca happiness iu her smile aud yet swearing her to t be the proudest and most delicate of wo men i was mildly jealoiis of other men for months 1 would not see her alone she was one of a large family and she had a favorite cousin lilly lawton who was her constant companion i she was veiy young and a blight sweet little thing ; but of late she had seemed i drooping as if out of health and steph enie had been unusually prole the and kind for stepheuie's sake i often took lilly i out to drive though her exceeding sim ! plicity often bored mc 1 could not but wonder that stephenie j associated with her so constantly ; but ! lilly worshipped her magnificent cousin ' and the latter blighted in being kind to j those weaker than herself kitten she called lilly and there had been something : especially kittenish in the girl's round bright gray eyes and playful graceful ways her special charm was gone now she was a pale faded spiritless little thing stephenie kept her constantly under her wing kitten must have green fields and pastures new she said the may suns are getting strong and i too long for a country trip wo are going to branch - ville and shall be absent about a week mind you are a good boy till wo come back i smiled but on tho wrong side of my lace a week i murmured a week and one day she laughed i shall be gray-headed when you come back i said smiling at my own vexa tion she laughed more gaily than ever ; then a shadow fell over her face it is for lilly's sake she whispered look at her lilly lay ou a hammock ou the piazza her hands lying listlessly iu her lap not a shade of color in her cheek the thought came to me that the child certainly was bound for the land of shad ows she must have help soon,1 said steph enie yes 1 answered i saw them off ou the morning train kitten with her cheek on stepheuie's shoulder i carried the picture before my eyes all the week my magnificent gen erous brunette supporting the failing strength of that pale fair-faced child and 1 had never loved her better in my life j than in the phase a week and a day stephenie had said : i therefore i had no expectation of seeing ! her when at the end office days i enter j ed tiie drawing-room of her father's house i to find au opera glass i had left there i had told the servant at the hall door | what my errand was and that i knew â– just where to look for the glass but on { the threshold of the apartment my steps were arrested by the sound of stepheuie's voice a rush of delight went over inc i was about to spring forward when i discover ed stephenie was seated in the alcove of au inner room beside a geutleuian is tood irresolute a curtain of blue skil fell across the upper part of the figures but upon it their shadows lay as they sat against tbe sunny windows beyond and plainly outlined stepheuie's beauti ful head and captain lonsdale's pro file i did not mean to be a listener to tlieir conversation but as i demurred about go ing forward i distinctly heard stephenie say : i love you utterly with all my heart i am not ashamed to say this because yon will never see nre again she continued talking but bei voice fell to a low monotone aud i realized my po sition and stumbled backward out of the room ami found myself in the street go ing dizzily home like some hunted thing i rushed to my room and hid myself from all eyes i remember throwing myself upon a couch and then starting up and walking the room looking at my pale face in the glass taking up books and opening as if to read them doing all sorts of uninten tional things in a mechanical way trying not to think of the revelation that bad come to ine because it seemed 1 should go mud if 1 did but a haunting voice was crying iu my car stephenie â€” lost ste phenie ! xo no she i.s mine !" i cried in dis pair 1 have loved bet so long and so well and she is my only darling what could i do without her ? jh god what can i do for the truth would not be gainsaid and must be faced with mine own eats i had heard her say to another man i love you ami what i may have murmur ed in moments of impatience i knew in my soul that stephenie st jean was no coquette captain langdale had been ordered to his regiment and she had probably return ed home to bid him farewell a soldier's life i.s always in peril and in the moment of parting stephenie bad confessed to him what i never had suspected heaven knows that i had no reason and i had good cause to think differently she had never plighted her troth to me but by word and look and sweet privileges she had accepted my love and 1 had such utter faith in her truth that the possibility of her deceiving mc had never ocurred to my mind the warmest and teudcrest intimacy existed between us and yet she never had given her promise to marry me sick at heart i realized it uow review ing the past in the hateful light of my midden discovery i was a lawyer and in the long hours of that utterly sleepless night i studied the case untiringly as if it had not been my owu lt was not a matter of mistaken identi ty leaving out the consideration that my heart would never mistake stepheu ie's voice i distinctly saw the outline of her bust and her dress revealed below the curtain was very familiar to me it was of cream-colored silk trimmed with black lace ou her foot she wore a pretty black satin shoe with a silver buc kle and the instep showed a cream-color ed stocking embroidered with silken buds and vines the dress and the stocking with its em broidery were all of the same tint and the whole costume of but two colors â€” cream and black as she sat within the blue curtain the artistic effect was very beautiful ah uo it was stephenie peerless among women and in heartsick misery i at length gave up the lost cause the gray dawn was stealing in at my window its sweet breeze bathing my ach ing temples when 1 sat down at my desk and penned my farewell letter stephenie i cannot trust myself to see you again i am as weak as a child and worn out with such suffering as i pray you may never know inadvertantly yesterday i heard you confess your heart to captain langdale i beard you say that you loved him then vou did not love me god only knows how utterly i believed you did aud what fervent gratitude and hapiness there was tome in that belief oh my darling how could you let itic wreck my heait on the shoals of your mere careless liking i was only a congenial friend a pleasant companion vour heart was his aud his alone farewell ! this passionate incoherent letter i di rected to her then called my valet pierre pack my trunks we will go down to black rocks for ihe summer the man started pardon monsieur it i.s very dull down there no gunning no fishing and uo young ladies !*' and consequently no waiting maids for vou to ogle i answered with a dreary attempt at ease and lightness of spirits but the fellow still looked at me monsieur looks very ill i ill bid the doctor to call on you and if he con seu ts we will go to that horrid place to morrow nonsense '.* i shall be well enough af ter a bath and some breakfast done be impertinent pierre we start on the 10 o'clock train black rock was not inhabited by fash ionable society : this was my ouly reason i â– :,: choosiugit the neptune hoc se where ill iii â– â– â– __â– â– â– â€” l i took up my abode was a large rambling old fashioned inn not the least in the world like a modern seaside hotel my valet of course arranged the con veniences of my life consequently i did not know the dark skinned old woman ! who one day presented herself at the door of my apartment with a long covered baa | ket upon ber arm my man was dusting ; a coat on the back piazza there is some one nt the door pierre,'1 i said to him as i sat in the window with a book which i was not reading it is the washerwoman she is a verv nice laundress monsieur yes i said indifferently pay her he received the carefully coveted bas ket settled the bill und the woman de parted pierre prepared to arrange my linen by opening â€ž bureau drawer i turned a page of my book as he withdrew the white cloth from the basket when my attcutiou was arrested by his exclamations mon dien laces ruffles what's the matter pierre *?" these are ladies things here is a wrapper with muted ruffies white skirts and ha ha f â€” embroidered stockings mees betsey mees betsey come back !" he dropped the basket on the floor and rushed after the old woman i glanced within and saw a mass of snowy lace and embroideries beautiful as a bed of lilies the clothing too dainty aud expensive to belong to any but a lady and 1 wondered who the owner might be in one corner wa.s a pile of hosiery the stockings were not all white oue pair was of cream color with a silk embroide ry of buds and vines and while i was carelessly considering how and when such exquisite needle work was done the thought dashed across me that i had seen that very pattern of silken rose-bud on stephenie st jean's foot my hand trembled i dropped t.io book as pierre came rushing back with the panting old woman , ves 1 have left the wrong basket the other outside is yours sir hope you'll ! excuse me 1 am getting old and forget ful stay,"1 i said breathlessly whom are the lady's things for ?'' for the young lady down stairs who came last week sit miss st dean i'll take them away direcl iy unheeding the wondering eyes of the two i snatched up a handkerchief on i which i saw a name marked yes it wa.s stepheuie " 1 grew i'.iiol an.l itiineo away io little my emotion my hand shook as ! snatch ed up my hat and rushed out of doors the sun was setting across the water the waves danced blood-red in its light the air had grown cool and a pair of singing shore birds flew before me as i sought a favorite seat of mine retired among the rocks i had not composed my mind when there was a rustle of silk am a soft baud was laid on my arm forest !" stephenie !" you know i am here now aud so 1 have come to speak to you she sat down close beside me facing me her arms across my knee her clear blue eyes steadily meeting mine and be fore sho spoke a wind i took thu fair i hand tenderly feeling that she was to be restored to mc forest i have been here a week wish ing to see yon yet repelled by your deter mined seclusion if the old woman called aunt betsey who frequents this place had nol told me to-night that accident had revealed iny presence to you i slionld have lost my remnant of courage and re turned home without speaking to you what have you to say to me uow stephenie ?"' vou overheard me talking as you sup posed to captain langdale forest i was reading a letter a letter r i have a startling story to tell listen all the spring my cousin lily's malady had seemed strange to me 1 could not understand her loss of strength ami color until i learned by occupying the next apartment to her at uraucbville that she spent her nights in weeping while i wondered that she should have a secret trouble from me and perplexed myself how to gain her confidence i entered her room one moniing and found it to be full of a strange sickening scent while lily lay senseless upon the bed she had ta ken u opiate powerful enough to pro duce death and upon the table lay two letters hue was addressed to me the other to captain langdale as soon as i had procured assistance and a physician's help h id saved hei life i read the letter the mÂ»or child had ad dressed to me poor kitten ! her heart was breaking for she had set it on one friend mid she believed that he loved me i am speaking of caplnin langdale he ia handsome gay and debonnaire and tin pooi girl believed him necessary to her existence so she confessed to me \Â» t her heart seemed to hold no bitterness foi her supposed rival she had always loved me he said and i was more worthy her hero bnt she wis so pitifully miserable poor little tiling well i considered the matter carcfullv i was only an hour's ride from captain langdale and i resolved to see hitu i-iiy j â– !â€¢. sje-'piug a restorative slumber and i could go to the city and return in about three hours i did so when i i.ached the depot i sent a car riage for him to come to our house 11 cam and read the letter our soldier lias a tender heart he was uvccud to tears v y ihe ,;,,. ]( t.(t j bidding me to read it aload as i did so you entered and heard the woids which so misled you her eyes were swimming as thev met mine bnt after an instant she went on captain langdale showed deeper ami more delicate feeling than 1 had suppose him capable of if little lily thinks such harum scarum fellows as i am worth dying for 1 ought t make myself worthy of t'i e blessing of such love '" he said and added i will give myslef to kitten to-morrow if sho wants me and i will be a bettermatitban i ever have been for her sake so said stephenie brightening there is to be a marriage it earir an t my lilly i8 quito 1,,pv in the prospects of sharing a boldier's life and and blushing radiantly and fastening one beauteous look into my eyes there may be a double wedding if vou please de.tr !" i tell my wife my happiness wns saved by such a fragile thing as an embroidered stocking certainly for this world and 1 believe for the next an enterprising reporter li-*>r.i the new york sun riiere was a picnic in eby's grove near dayton ohio one day some of tho young men wandered down the river in a secluded nook they discovered a pile of female clothing the looked into tho river for signs of life or death but saw nothing a newspaper reporter tool down all ihe surroundings rummaged among the clothes and found there were several cts or suits of them little and big in one ofthe pockets a love letter was found written by hal to julia tim clothing was tenderly bundled up and taken to the picnic camp stuffed until r a buggy scat the party started home feel ing very sad it did not occur to them at oacc ih,u it was a little strange that a young woman and two or three little girls should commit suicide all al once it was perhaps julia and her iiuie sisters who had thus plunged into eternity jl was a very sad case all agreed disap pointed love perhaps md ou the theory of suicide the love letter would be a good thine for thn aca-.i-.nut tlm clothe wi-rii taken to ti police office the reporter was satisfied that !'â– had a good tiling the account was read evidently for earlj in the morning an angrj father camo riging into police quarters demanding the clothes his daughter had taken a walk on the ri cr bank with two or three little neighbor givls and the place being secluded and the temperature warm and the water im it ing they concluded to take a bath soon they heard voice in the woods and hid them ives in the bushes hey huddled together is quiet as mice until the intruding yonng men had como and gone gone with their clothes the only thing they could do was to remain quietly where they were until after dark and then steal to their homes in tin kind ly shadows of ui jhl . â€” â€” â€” tiie end of the cabarrus enoch arden ask it will be remembered that some time ago the observer told the story of an enoch arden case in cabarrus a mi dodson had married a mr lamhaidt and after awhile he left lu the course of time she was married to a mr jjiscu heimer and years afterwards mr earn hardt re uned to find bis wife surroun ded by a family of children ml his own unlike tbe historic arden he did not al ter looking in through the open window upon the happy scene wipes tear from his sun-burnt faco and refuse to disturb it but in wanted to claim ins own the wife whieh was formerly his asked foi a divore from him and at the last term of cabarrus court just closed ibe case was hear 1 and the divorce granted mr mia ciiik iuier then very properly took steps to have the legitimacy of his children es tablished and next monday he will b re married to the woman of whose joys and sorrows l.e has for the last hall dozen years been aiaithful sharer ch -,. ob political i hxtribu ph>xs although the presi lent insists lli .* ho refusal on the i u ; of iv lend a ers to pay auythiug foi camj ii pnr | wises wiil not wih-k to r'e .. prejudice v et the opinion seem - 'Â«' i â– by the truly loyal ones in the i in departments th.it the be liiuig to ii-i ; i to respond to the cail unide foi the i â€¢â€¢*. oluntun couti .-.-.. io â€¢" â– â– | h r . . can coiigi*esÂ»*o:iaj committee i â– ,. certained by im ;.. â– . : 1 1 b en a veiy general re-spouse to the call for money and thai the u ... have tailed to make subscriptions is .. few the talk that it will not injure tho standing nf au employee to refuse to con tribute is uot accepted with iu'.i faith i j those most interested otherwise t.'i * i e pu'u'.icui committee would uot have su much money as they now have .*.: tkeif command